Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

I loved being Secretary of State, that’s probably evident to everyone who watched me.

We’re all dreamers.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

A President cannot always be popular.

These young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.

All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.

Dream and you shall become.

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

When I checked into SEAL Team One many years ago, one of the things that I noticed was there was this old guy, who was younger than I am today, who I decided that I was going to be like. I wanted to emulate what he was doing, and one of those things was he got to work before anybody else.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

Surveys show our standing around the world is higher than when I was elected to this office, and when it comes to every important international issue, people of the world do not look to Beijing or Moscow to lead – they call us.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

I always wanted a family.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

I’m trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

The buck stops here!

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Applause waits on success.